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From ~~~ Day by Day with Bhagavan, 11-1-46

M.:

Effortless and choiceless awareness is our real nature. 

If we can attain it or be in that state, it is all right. 

But one cannot reach it without effort, 

the effort of deliberate meditation. 

All the age-long vasanas carry the mind outward

and turn it to external objects. 

All such thoughts have to be given up 

and the mind turned inward. 

For that, effort is necessary for most people. 

Of course everybody, every book says, “Be quiet or still”. 

But it is not easy. 

That is why all this effort is necessary.

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You can only find peace

when you return home

to your own Self.

~ Papaji"

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Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don't bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow."--- Mooji.

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What is bhakti?

Purified love.

What is jnaan?

Abiding as the Self.

What is karm?

Detached work.

What is yog?

Perfected concentration.

Written by Sugata Bose

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"People are suffering. Everybody, almost all the human beings of this world, are suffering because they are trying to find peace and happiness in objects. They are examining and experiencing objects one by one, but this is only resulting in pain and suffering. There is no object in the mind, no person, no thing, no concept that can return you to happiness and peace of mind. So I just tell them: 'Don’t look here, there, anywhere. Peace is within you and within the Heart of all beings. So keep quiet, don’t look anywhere, don’t allow your mind to abide anywhere, and you will see that it is peace, happiness itself.' That is the fundamental truth. Every being in the world is happiness itself."

~ Papaji

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 "Recognize that whatever manifests in consciousness is a playful, momentary and superficial expression and not a definition of What Is. It may be the playing out of age old conditioning on the body mind level, but you are pure and beyond all definitions. You are the formless witness only. The unchanging Reality behind the moving mind. Keep the attention here." Mooji

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Q. How does self-identification happen? 

M: The self by its nature knows itself only. For lack of experience whatever it perceives it takes to be itself. Battered, it learns to look out (viveka) and to live alone (vairagya). When right behavior (uparati), becomes normal, a powerful inner urge (mukmukshutva) makes it seek its source. The candle of the body is lighted and all becomes clear and bright. 

Q: What is the real cause of suffering? 

M: Self-identification with the limited (vyaktitva). Sensations as such, however strong, do not cause suffering. It is the mind bewildered by wrong ideas, addicted to thinking: 'I am this' 'I am that', that fears loss and craves gain and suffers when frustrated. 

Q: A friend of mine used to have horrible dreams night after night. Going to sleep would terrorize him. Nothing could help him. 

M: Company of the truly good (satsang) would help him.

Q: Life itself is a nightmare. 

 

M: Noble friendship (satsang) is the supreme remedy for all ills, physical and mental. 

Q: Generally, one cannot find such friendship. 

M: Seek within. Your own self is your best friend. 

- Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT ch 28, p. 91

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Love: Beyond the Beyond

Freedom is the start of something

that Nobody knows:

there is no end to Satsang,

it is always new fathomless Bliss.

The firm conviction

that one is Existence-Consciousness-Bliss

is the end of the Teaching.

Yet there is a sacred secret beyond event this.

This sacred secret must be asked for in secret

and followed sacredly.

Constantly go to the Source.

Don´t even land in the Source,

but forever go deeper.

Still beyond It Is.

You have to take the last half step

from Peace-Awareness-Bliss

into the Mystery beyond the mind.

~ Papaji

Be careful and vigilant.

You will keep the problems most dear to you

and so your old friends, your wicked habits, the asuras,

will come back and invite you to suffer again.

They are very strong and so you must be.

Break these old habits and you are free, 

so only travel with those in the same boat, 

only associate with those going in the same direction. 

Go to Truth at any cost, always keep Quiet.

When circumstances of vasanas arise so will the vasanas,

no matter how dormant they are, and especially if you are Quiet.

A bullet kills once but a vasana kills again and again.

So vigilantly inquire!

Expectations are illusions, so don´t run after them and

don´t get involved in anger, lust, and greed either. 

Just don´t involve yourself with them.

Keeping Quiet and content is the best weapon.

~ Papaji